Download screen, wasting space is BAD

[nilloc93]

Wow congrats valve, you updated another page on this client, this time you managed to make a download screen worse.
This is the first time I've ever seen a download page and gone "huh this sucks and don't convey information that well" it's almost impressive how much you failed this time.

Seriously start any web browser, or even better, start Uplay or battle net or just look at the old download screen. You'll see something in common which is that its not full of stupid graphics that just waste space. And they convey information about the DOWNLOADS which is the entire purpose of the screen. If a page devotes more space to stroking the ego of the artist who designed in than actually showing the purpose of the page then you know its messed up.

Fire whoever you have re-designing your client and tell them to go be a failing artist somewhere else.
OR
Just give us the option to go back to the old client theme, for library and all other screens you plan on making look like they belong on a smart phone instead of a PC.

[Smawg]

BloodShed lähetti viestin:

Smawg lähetti viestin:

Why did you guys remove "view news?" That was THE most useful part of the downloads section.

Again, not all developers have transitioned to the new system yet.
https://i.imgur.com/0tko3Y0.png

thanks! As long as it functions i dont give a ahit how it looks.

[LaeLena]

Steam: "The downloads page in the Steam client has been replaced with a new implementation and has been visually redesigned for clarity and ease of use."

Me: "I see we have very different idea of clarity and ease of use".

Why is everything these days made to look like I should be using it on mobile instead of PC?

[BIG E.]

If something isn't broken DON'T FIX IT. Old download screen was good. It was simple and i could see every needed information very clearly. Now it is just too much useless ♥♥♥♥ on the screen. FFS fix actual issues and revert this completely unnecessary change valve.

[nullable]

So I finally got the update and I don't see what everyone is whining about. But I guess that's the problem with having hundreds of millions of users. You have one group constantly crying about how dated Steam looks and needs updating. And you have another group constantly crying about every update and the need for an option to stay stuck in 20XX, as if the thing they were merely used to was optimal.

Both groups forget they make up tiny minority of malcontents. Functionally there's hardly any difference from what I can tell. Not that I ever spent much time fussing over the downloads page over the last 17 years...

[Maniac]

I like to know when something is waiting to download, so I keep the downloads page open by default, but the new update switches to the library page for each game when I launch it, forcing me to switch it back manually.

/slowclap.

Great downgrade Valve. Please give me my old downloads page back.
This one looks terrible, and doesn't match the look of the rest of the Steam client.

Edit: Oh, yes, I also keep steam open on my 3rd monitor, so I get to look at this new ugliness any time I just move my eyeballs a little.

[Sephiroth]

Snakub Plissken lähetti viestin:

Functionally there's hardly any difference from what I can tell.

What you cannot tell, however is how much more resources Steam uses because it needs to use its bloated chromium web helper to render this newfangled pile of junk whereas the old downloads page was EXTREMELY optimized (As it was rendered using proper machine language and not handed off to an embedded webserver to serve up html/css/javashit) and used little to no resources to render and utilize. It was the only screen that I would leave the Steam Client on to eliminate as much resource usage Steam would use on my system as it wouldn't need to keep the bloated embedded-chromium processes (it runs multiple of these at the same time) running.

[BIG E.]

Sephiroth lähetti viestin:

Snakub Plissken lähetti viestin:

Functionally there's hardly any difference from what I can tell.

What you cannot tell, however is how much more resources Steam uses because it needs to use its bloated chromium web helper to render this newfangled pile of junk whereas the old downloads page was EXTREMELY optimized and used little to no resources to render and utilize. It was the only screen that I would leave the Steam Client on to eliminate as much resource usage Steam would use on my system as it wouldn't need to keep the bloated embedded-chromium processes (it runs multiple of these at the same time) running.

EXACTLY THIS. No one cares how pretty Steam looks. People want it to run like it doesn't even exist on the background. If they change every single part of it like this it will be LESS AND LESS optimized wich is a bad thing.

[Brakzias]

Give us back the old download screen. This new one is a giant eyesore and completely disgusting to look at. I did not want it before. I do not want it now. Give us the option to revert. This is stupid.

[Jack Krauser]

"View News" button on downloads gone

Overhauling the downloads page is one thing, but why did you have to remove the "View News" button? Am I not supposed to know why the updates happen now? That's something devs put on their news article, y'know! And it was especially useful when a workshop addon is updated because going to the list of subscribed items and sorting them out by "recently updated" took longer than just reading the news and "View News" fixed that, but now I have to make extra steps just to get there. It's as if the inconvenience I had years ago is coming back here.

Once again, Valve has gone 3 steps forward with graphics, and 5 steps back with efficiency. When are they going to understand that people don't care about fancy Steam graphics as long as it's intuitive and most importantly not broken?

[nullable]

Sephiroth lähetti viestin:

Snakub Plissken lähetti viestin:

Functionally there's hardly any difference from what I can tell.

What you cannot tell, however is how much more resources Steam uses because it needs to use its bloated chromium web helper to render this newfangled pile of junk whereas the old downloads page was EXTREMELY optimized (As it was rendered using proper machine language and not handed off to an embedded webserver to serve up html/css/javashit) and used little to no resources to render and utilize. It was the only screen that I would leave the Steam Client on to eliminate as much resource usage Steam would use on my system as it wouldn't need to keep the bloated embedded-chromium processes (it runs multiple of these at the same time) running.

If I can't tell how much more resources Steam uses, then what's the problem? I've got a decent PC. I can't really say my time is best spent trying to micromanage the resource usage of a web based client. And really I've been listening to people whine and cry about browser resource usage for 20 years. It's almost a traditional complaint. But it's never been terribly rational.

And web based clients have been the trend for the last decade. Not much reason I can see for Valve to buck the trend. I mean if you know better, I'd get on that and get a business rolling to clean house. If efficiency and "proper machine code" is what really matters you should be able to prove that out and run circles around everyone.

[Jimmy Hunter]

Now if you get an update for anything on the Steam Workshop, you need to manually go to the Workshop itself and check to see what was last updated.

It's like the buffoons that keep changing Steam don't even use the damn system they work on.

[fanboi]

I agree this update was terrible.

[Rocktale]

Came here after seeing this ugly piece of s***-new download section and thought "surely i'm just to dumb to find the option to set it back to what it was before, maybe it is a good idea t look at the discussions..." well and look what i see, there seems to be no option to set back to what looked nice and worked well...
Now this new look of the download page is absolutly aweful, unintuitive, plain ugly as f***.
i already hate the developers for making me curse this much...
Who the hell was that idiot, thinking it would be a good idea to take so much place for simple network stats?
The new icons are ugly as hell too.
Hey if you keep going this way its, this is going to be a reason to go to epic, at least for me.
Even if their platform isn't the most beautiful, and lacks a ton of features, at least i don't get eye cancer from it.

[AGENTMOO]

Ya if they could teach all the developers how to put proper patch notes so they show up at least now that there is no news button.

(whoever's idea that was, enjoy your demotion)

(unless it was Gabe's... I take it all back. What an amazing change, thank you!)

[SentosKarum]

This is clear downgrade. Patchnotes are now even more inaccessible than they were.